Coin and ticket apparatus.



S. P. PLEDGER. COIN AND TICKET APPARATUS. APPLICATION FILED man, 1913.

Patented Mar. 31, 1914 2 SHEETS-SHEET 1.

-WITNE55E e INVENTUR s. 1 PLEDGER. COIN AND TICKET APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED PEBJI, 1 913.

Patented Mar. 31, 1914.

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, XWN Eisrilw/ INVENTUR fication.

SAM PLEDGER, OF OKLAHOMA, OKLAHOlYIA.

COIN AND TICKET APPARATUS.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Mar. 31, 1914;.

Application filed February 11, 1913. Serial No. 747,680.

in bulk and tickets or checks, and includes means whereby the combined change and ticket or check may be automatically and mechanically passed to the person interested in the transaction.

It is one of the objects of the invention to provide a novel, simple and efficient ticketdispenser.

It isanother object of the invention to associate the same with a coin dispensing apparatus.

It is a further object of the invention to provide means in connectionwith both, for delivering the combined product of ticket or check and money.

Additional objects of the invention will appear from a further reading of the speci- In this case, no attempt is made toward a detailed description of the coin apparatus, for the reason that preferably, the ticket device may be associated with such a coin device as is made the subject matter of my ap plication for United States Letters Patent, filed January 7th, 1913, and bearing Serial N umber 740,748.

The novel means for issuing and caring for the tickets and the means for delivering the same and the coin is made the subject of the illustrations, partly set forth on the sheets of drawings, accompanying and forming a part of this specification, and which shows one of the practical embodiments of such means.

On the drawings, Figure 1 illustrates an elevational view of that portion of a ticket delivering and chopping machine as may be needed to illustrate the invention, said View being divested of unnecessary parts for purposes of illustration. Fig. 2 is a detail fragmentary sectional view of a portion of the .ticket delivering mechanism; Fig. 3 is a detail view of a wheel employed in the mechanism; Fig. 4 illustrates, partly in elevation and partly in section, a combined ticket mechanism, coinv mechanism and means for delivering from both the ticket and coin, and Fig. 5 is a plan view of the same.

In these views similar characters of reference indicate similar parts. I

Within asuitable framing'6, such as is shown in Fig. v4, is a structure that may be formed by a series of uprights 7, 8, 9, and that, in the present instance may be tied together by a bottom and top rail 11 and 12. Branching from this structure, in the present instance are lateral bars 13, that are sup ported by uprights 14. These are tied together by a bar 15..

Suitably mounted on shafts 16and 17 the former being journaled in uprights 7 and 8 while the latter is journaled in the uprights 9 and 10, are rollers 18 and 19, and these are designed to be associated with rollers 20 and 21 that are borne upon shafts 22 and 23 that are located in floating bearings 24 and 25, shown in dotted line in Fig. 2, and which movein' guideways 26 in the uprights 8 and 9. For the purpose of keeping the rollers 18 and 20, and 19 and 21 in contact, springs 27 are provided that cooperate with the floatmg bearings in the guide ways and thus press the floating rollers 20 and 21 against the fixed rollers 18 and 19. Each roller is provided with gear 2-8 29, 30, and 31, that are adapted to mesh. in pairs for the purpose of transmitting motion from one to the other. The gears 28 and 31 are located on the stationary shafts, while the gears 29 and 30 are located on the floated shafts. The gears 28 and 31 are associated with a sleeve 32, which together with the gear is adapted to move axially upon the shafts 16 and 17, and each sleeve 32 is toothed as at 33 to mesh with teeth 34 carried by corresponding sleeves 35 that are associated with gears 36. The gears 36 and the sleeves 35 are countersunk as at 37 and into the housing formed thereby, a spring, surrounding the spindlesorshafts 16 and 17 is deposited, for the purpose of allowing the gears 36 and the sleeves 35 to move axially away from the sleeves 32 to allow the teeth 33 and 34 to escape as will later on be set forth.

Movably mounted in suitable. bearings, such as 38 and 39 are plungers 40 and 41 that are provided with racks 42 and 43 that mesh with the gears 36, and therefore upon a downward stroke of said plungers the gears will rotate and transmit the same to the rollers through the gears 28 and 29 and 30 and 31.

The .tickets or checks to be dispensed are designed to be formed in a continuous strip and one of the strips is designed to pass between one set of rollers, while the other strip will be passed in between the other set. In

I order to turn the rollers only a predeter- 10 controlled accordingly. The plungers will normally be held in elevated position by springs 46 that may bear to the underside of the finger pieces 47. I

It is an object of the invention to cut the ticket from the strip after it has been properly projected by the rollers, and in order to accomplish this feature of the invention, any suitable means may be adopted, and one of such means consists of a shearing device that may be suitably disposed in front of the rollers for the purpose of cutting the tickets. In the present instance there may be located in front of the rollers a combined ticket chute 48 consisting of two channels 49 and 50, which terminate at a point of intersection with a delivery chute 51, seen in Fig. 4. Suitably pivoted as at 52 is a knife 53, that is suitably connected by a link 54 to a lever 55 that extends from a shaft 56 that is journaled in the framing. From the opposite side of said shaft 56 are a pair of arms 57 and 58 one of which is more clearly shown in Fig. 2, and these arms are designed to lie inthe path of a detent 59 that is carried by each plunger 40 and 41. These detents are spring actuated by springs 60 and as the plungers descend, they move about their pivot 61 and out of the way of the arms 57 and 58 as the plungers pass along their down stroke. As the springs 46 force the plungers upward the detents being pressed into the path of the arms 57 and 58, will cause the latter to elevate and pull down the knife and cut the ticket, and as before explained,'the plunger being controlled in 55 its downward movement by the set screws, the ticket will be cut at the proper place. The rollers are preferably .serrated and this again will cause a positive delivery of the ticket to the point desired.

Thus it Will be seen that I have produced a practical and efiicient ticket or check chopping and delivering mechanism from which tickets may be taken mechanically and automatically. It will also be understood that the delivery mechanism may be operated in any suitable manner.

Having thus describedthis invention, I claim:

1. A ticket dispensing mechanism comprising independent setsof rollers; a shaft for each roller in each set; a clutch adapted to engage with one shaft of each set; plungers for operating said clutches; means for governing the movement of the plungers; means "carried by the mechanism'for severing tickets from the line passing through and projected by the rollers, means carried by the plungers for operating the cutting means, and a chute for receiving the ejected. ticket.

2. A ticket dispensing mechanism comprising independent sets of rollers; a shaft for each roller in each set; a clutch adapted to engage with one shaft of each set; plungers for operating said clutches; means for adjusting the stroke of the plungers, a ticket cutter, means for operating the same; and a chute for receiving the cut ticket.

8. A. ticket dispensing mechanism comprising'independent sets of rollers through which to pass a line of tickets and project them one by one; a shaft for each roller in each shaft, a clutch for a shaft in each set,

means to operate the clutch, means for adjusting the throw of said means, said adjustment also controlling the ticket line so as to properly project the line, and a ticket cutter adapted to cut at the proper point in the line. 5

Signed at the city of Oklahoma, in the county of Oklahoma and State of Oklahoma, this eighth day of February, in the year nineteen hundred and thirteen.

SAM P. PLEDGER.

Witnesses:

A. P. SMELSER, R. P. CARPENTER. 

